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support from quarters that were strongly prejudiced against 

 us a year ago. Lastly, the publication of Glor na Ly has 

 convinced many waverers that an accomplished fact can 

 no longer be regarded as an impossibility. To-day there is 

 less call for polemics, and it would be easier to plead the 

 cause of the Society on its own merits. But I have thought 

 it undesirable to recast the lecture, for I believe the facts 

 are still as I have stated them. 



